Philosophy 2073F/G Lecture 6: Week6.docx
23 Apr 2014
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Epicurean view no subject problem once you die there is no longer any badness of death by which death could be predicated. Silverstein didn"t think it was okay that there could be events that could happen in the future that could cause harm to you now. Argued that even though you"re dead and no longer exist, the mere fact that you won"t exist in the future can be harmful to you now. Nagel there can be things that you"re not aware of that are harmful to you insofar as you"re still the subject of these things. Ship of theseus: as the parts of theseus" ship decayed over time, they were replaced by new ones. If it is different, at which point did the old ship cease to exist and the new one come to be? o. For locke, continued consciousness and the ability to recognize oneself define personal identity.
